When Strawberries Bloom: Creative Team
Selena A. Naumoff — Golda Meir
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
With a BA in Theatre Arts, Selena has taught theatre classes, directed live productions, stage-managed, designed, and performed in theatre and film. She is active in theatre all over the Denver Metro area, sits on the Board of Directors for the Wheat Ridge Theatre Company, and is the Technical Director for the South Suburban Parks and Recreation Center Theatre Department.
Her stage credits in Denver include The LGBTQ+ Odd Couple (Olive), The Language Archive (Emma), Annie (Miss Hannigan), Sordid Lives (Bitsy Mae Harling), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Dancer), Zorro the Musical (the Old Gypsy), Towards Zero (Inspector Leach), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Ensemble). While in Phoenix, Arizona, she performed in Up the Down Staircase (Bea Schacter), Into the Woods (Lucinda), and Hansel & Gretel (the Witch).
Film credits include Evie at Eighteen (Matha), Ronan the Ronin (Camille Pearce), and Ringers: Lord of the Fans (interviewee). Selena is honored to be the first to portray Prime Minister Meir in When Strawberries Bloom. She has directed Mike Broemmel’s The Bonfil’s Girl last year and loves seeing him bring such important historical characters to life on stage!
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Mike Broemmel — Playwright
Deb Flomberg-Rollins — Director
Mike Broemmel — Playwright
A prolific and award-winning playwright, Mike Broemmel is the Resident Playwright for both Act One Productions and Theatrix USA, the producers of When Strawberries Bloom.
Among the plays written by Mike currently in production are Stand Still & Look Stupid: Life Story of Hedy Lamarr, The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote, Witness: Story of Virginia Hill, Call Me Mrs. Evers: Life Story of Myrlie Evers, The Hours of Anne: Last Day in the Life of Anne Boleyn, A Destination of My Own: Life Story of Richard Durham, and A Lady & Her Wagon: Life Story of Julia Greeley. An Echoing Spring: A Story of Matthew Shepard has its world premiere in the summer of 2025.
In 2024, a series of four plays by Mike Broemmel were staged at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The retrospective of plays is supported by Denver Arts & Venues through the ARPA Cultural Partner Activation Program. In addition, in the summer of 2024, Mike's play The Bonfils Girl was selected to reopen the iconic, historic Elitch Theatre, after the nation's first summer stock theatre had been closed for 33 years.
In addition to his work as a playwright, Mike Broemmel is a novelist and writer of short fiction. His most recent novel, The Baptism, is slated for release in 2025. Mike is a legislative and public policy consultant on school safety and security.
Before embarking on a career as a writer, Mike was involved in the political arena, including running for office himself and serving on the White House Staff in the Office of Media Relations as well as in the Office of the First Lady.